Where does the data come from?

From a free open source database maintained by researchers at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), headquartered at the University of Maryland. The data shows information that spans from 1970 until 2019.The last update was on the 17th September of 2019 and the are currently three versions of the data set. During the merging of the data to the servers the Consortium lost all 1993’s data and other dates too. However they managed to recover all 1993’s missing data so I combined the two sets.

Global Terrorism

The World situation seen by different points of view:

A Globe map

Two different graphics (function and barplot) showing the casualties through the years

Focusing on the regions

Middle East & North Africa

A simple wordcloud to show which state is suffering the most.

IRAQ’S WARS

Iraq suffered more than 80.000 victims through the years. In the last twenty years they suffered two wars (during the 2003-2011 invasion and the ISIS proclamation of 2013-2017)


    These two recent conflicts brought:
  • 26.616 civilian victims in the IRAQ war plus 255 USA soldiers.
  • 53.336 civilian victims in the ISIS war plus 12 USA soldiers.
  • During these wars attacks 79.952 lives were lost.

How did they die? Who killed these people? Where did these attacks happen?

The main weapons used in the attacks

Here are the main terrorist groups

Cities that had more than 100 victims.

    These are the primary cities and towns have been hit by terrorism:

  • Baghdad has reached 21.394 fatalities.
  • Mosul has reached 7.279 fatalities.

South Asia

Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan

These four states, as we saw before, are the most suffering.

How did they die? Who killed these people? Where did these attacks happen?

The main weapons used in the attacks.

Here are the main terrorist groups.

Cityies that had more than 100 victims.

These are the primary cities and towns hit by terrorism.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan

How did they die? Who killed these people? Where did these attacks happen?

The main weapons used in the attacks.

Here are the principal terrorist groups.

Cities and towns with more than 50 victims.

These are the primary cities and towns hit by terrorism.

Which is the state that suffered the most in a single day? Which is the city that sufferd the most during the years?

The deadliest day for a single terrorist attack.

The worst cities.